Dystopian Society And Movies Worth Watching

Are we heading towards a dystopian society?

Movies you should watch:

Equilibrium and Fahrenheit 451 are both dystopian films based on Orwellian themes. -In Equilibrium, emotions are banned. They are said to have caused war, suffering, pain. In 451, books fill this role.

-In Equilibrium, the populace is controlled by Prozium, the anti-emotion drug. The populace cannot feel highs and lows. In 451 ‘sleeping pills’ the red pills, the yellow pills, etc, cause a varied range of emotions, from hunger to elation.

-In both cases, the protagonist(E:John Preston, 451:Guy Montag) is a pawn of the system, who later rebels not after a life-changing event, but after cumulative dislike of the system, combined with persuasion from a female protagonist(E:Mary O’Brien, 451:Clarisse)

Both have a ‘happy ending’, which is unusual for the Orwellian-dystopian genre.

The giver is another movie that touches this subject of knowledge. All are not very far of from a possible distant future of mankind.